Before the first model stepped out onto the catwalk clad in Hoffman’s pretty kicky Indian-inspired, mostly printed garb appropriate for wear poolside, on the beach and maybe to an alfresco cocktail party, a few “famous” faces came into the tented show space.

Photographers went wild for the pair of ”Real Housewives of Miami,” Marysol Patton and Alexia Echevarria, up top, who struck a variety of poses for the cameras.

The House of Lavande jewelry salon in Royal Poinciana Plaza today hosted designer Stephanie von Watzdorf, above left, and her business partner Sabina Schlumberger, above, right, for the first-ever showing of the Boho-chic Figue collection.

The clothes have a resort spirit, said Manhattan-based von Watzdorf, who launched Figue with Schlumberger just last October.

Figue, by the way is the French word for fig, which is the designer’s favorite fruit. Figs also remind her of the lovely times she spent on a Mediterranean island as a child.

“Everything we do has an artisanal aspect,” said von Watzdorf, who was vice president of design at Tory Burch for seven years before starting up Figue.

Miami dealer Keni Valenti, known as the “king of vintage,” had been planning an exhibition devoted to the design career of Palm Beach’s own Lilly Pulitzer for months before her death on April 7.

“Since Lilly’s death, the show became more of a retrospective of her life,” Valenti said.

The exhibition, featuring more than 150 Pulitzer-designed pieces dating from the decades of the 1960s and 1970s, opened Saturday at Valenti’s gallery, 2612 N.W. 2nd Ave. in Miami’s Wynwood Art District.

About 1,000 people came to the opening, said Valenti.

The primo-condition examples amassed for the show include Pulitzer styles for women, men and children.

The rest of the world is catching up to Palm Beach, where “casual” on a party invite means a sport coat or blazer and no tie for the men in the crowd.

Gents around here lean more toward the dandy than the dressed down sartorially speaking, and they have for years, so it’s no surprise that The Men’s Store at Saks Fifth Avenue, 150 Worth Ave., is selling its fresh stock of “lapel accents” like hotcakes this season.

The “lapel accent” is one of the trends of the spring season, according to Saks.

The party was thrown in honor The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach and Diana Ecclestone, chairwoman of the organization’s March 1 benefit dinner dance.

“The collection is all about beautiful prints, with lots of greens, deep blues and other rich tones,” said Quadretti, who is based in Florence, but has a salon in New York that caters to customers who appreciate her artisanal approach and the custom quality of her made-to-order creations.

Vhernier, the Milanese jeweler with a boutique at Saks Fifth Avenue’s 172 Worth Ave. branch in Palm Beach, has created a one-of-a-kind brooch-bedecked alligator-skin handbag as the lead auction item for Thursday’s Old Bags Luncheon benefit for The Center for Family Services, a Palm Beach County charity that aids families in crisis.

Saks Fifth Avenue Palm Beach is a longtime supporter of the Old Bags Luncheon, which has been a regular fixture on the social island’s calendar for the past 15 years.

Debbie Reynolds is filling in for daughter Carrie Fisher as the featured speaker at the charity event.

Trudy McConnell, a longtime Palm Beacher, is relatively new to the fashion game, though she’s been an avid collector of artisan-crafted items for several decades.

On a trip to Bali in 2004, in the wake of the devastating terrorist bombings, McConnell noticed that the island’s main industry, tourism, was at a standstill and times appeared to be pretty difficult for the natives.

On a day when currents were too strong to dive, she happened to visit the family compound of her diving master, and saw firsthand how the rural village culture was struggling at the time.